believe they could to get more to jump on board in support of this. that is something we are going to be looking for the next few days. one of the republicans, besides the ten, have signed on to these proposals. one of the republicans have signed on to this, and whether mcconnell gives his blessing. we ve seen a statement since this announcement of this deal from mcconnell. he says, in part, quote, i am glad senators mccormack and murphy are continuing to move forward in their discussion. i respect this one is important. you i hope that this creates a bipartisan product that makes some headway. of course, that falls short of a flood your support for any sort of legislation that could be put forward for a vote. yes. we will see the extent to which he does support this when it comes to actually taking a vote. thank, you allie raffa, for. that yamiche, another question for. you let us for activists. those who have been in these rallies, these marches, across the country, it is almost as
he s a danger to the european community. so here s what s former u.s. ambassador michael mcfaul said about putin s thinking. take a listen. he s not worried about the stock price next week. he s not worried about the economy taking over the next months or years. he s thinking about what will russian history books say about vladimir putin 30, 40, 50 years from now. when he wants them to say is that russia was weak, that the soviet leaders let the soviet union collapse. wrongly. and that i was the guy that restored russia as a great power. i was the one that put us back so general, let me allow you to add a punctuation point to what you ve just said, because to add to what we just heard, putin packed a lot of those grievances and anger into less than an hour in his speech today.
russian history books say about vladimir putin 30, 40, 50 years from now. when he wants them to say is that russia was weak, that the soviet leaders let the soviet union collapse. wrongly. and that i was the guy that restored russia as a great power. i was the one that put us back so general, let me allow you to add a punctuation point to what you ve just said, because to add to what we just heard, putin packed a lot of those grievances and anger into less than an hour in his speech today. did he sound like a man who is going to limit his actions? no, of course not, and that s why i think we have to expect that this is step one of a multi phased plan. i ll bet there s fighting to secure most of those two provinces, probably to establish a land quarter from crimea up to the maritime borders of ukraine, to the eastern regions.
who have been out there preaching to the choir for a long time is really an understatement, and there are several things that are really concerning. first is the pace at which things are happening. you mentioned 217%. i can tell you just last week in the state, we had about 500 people hospitalized and we are now over 1,000, and i suspect by the end of this week we ll be close to 2,000. what is so upsetting about that is that it doesn t have to be that way. vaccination does prevent severe disease and almost all of these hospitalizations are occurring in people who received no vaccinations. so, the key is to try to get people vaccinated against this devastating surge, which is largely hear, being driven by the delta variant. so just to put a punctuation
devastating surge, which is largely here being driven by the delta variant. just to put a punctuation point on it if everybody was vaccinated, you would have zero or near zero patients in your hospital, suffering from covid. you can never say near zero, because some people are clearly remember the vaccines are 94 to 95% effective. you will always have a small percentage of people who are not going to be totally protected, but we also have people who have immune immune compromise. people on dialysis and receiving transplants. they don t respond so well to the vaccine, but look at other states like vermont. they have achieved astonishing amounts of vaccine coverage, they are not seeing anything remotely like this. the rates of vaccine coverage with the hospitalization, right you will see there is and completely inverse correlation.